mushroom
1Mushroom — Mush room, a. 1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup. [1913 Webster] 2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities. [1913 Webster] {Mushroom anchor}, an… …
2Mushroom — Chanson par Can extrait de l’album Tago Mago Pays  Allemagne Sortie 1971 …
3mushroom — [mush′ro͞om΄, mush′room΄] n. [ME muscheron < OFr moisseron < LL mussirio (gen. mussirionis)] 1. a) any of various rapidly growing, fleshy fungi, typically having a stalk capped with an umbrellalike top; esp., a gill or pore fungus b) the… …
4mushroom — mush‧room [ˈmʌʆruːm, rʊm] verb [intransitive] to develop very quickly: • Cable has mushroomed into a giant industry. mushrooming adjective : • the mushrooming private business sector * * * mushroom UK US /ˈmʌʃruːm/ verb [I] INFORMAL …
5Mushroom TV — Limited is an English television company and owner of several satellite television music channels. Mushroom operates Channel AKA, Starz TV and Greatest Hits TV. The company was launched in 2000 and, according to their website, are fully committed …
6Mushroom — Mush room, n. [OE. muscheron, OF. mouscheron, F. mousseron; perhaps fr. mousse moss, of German origin. See {Moss}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) An edible fungus ({Agaricus campestris}), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded… …
7mushroom — mush room, v. i. 1. to grow or expand rapidly. [PJC] 2. to grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full blown war. [PJC] …
8mushroom — index proliferate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
9mushroom — [v] sprout; grow quickly augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, grow rapidly, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, shoot up, spread, spring up; concepts 179,704 Ant. shrink, shrivel …
10mushroom — ► NOUN 1) a spore producing body of a fungus, typically having the form of a domed cap at the top of a stalk and often edible. 2) a pale pinkish brown colour. ► VERB ▪ increase or develop rapidly. ORIGIN Old French mousseron …
